CHP-053 China in the Early 1920s




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Summary: The 1920's in Republican era China was anything but quiet and uneventful. In this episode we focus in on the general situation in China during the period of the early 1920's. This was a time when the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and KMT (Kuomintang) were in the same bed dreaming their different dreams. It was a period where China was divided with warlords Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang controlling China from the Yangzi north. The south was the domain of the KMT-CCP alliance where revolution was always in the air. In 1927 Chiang Kai-shek will turn on the CCP and this sets a chain of events in motion that will lead to the Communists victory in 1949.